Welcome to The Fleer Sticker Project. Since there is so little published information regarding the various team logo sticker sets produced by Fleer over the last 40+ years, I thought I'd post the information I've come across through my years of collecting.

Wednesday, May 7, 2014

Rare Padres Cap Pics from The Topps Vault

As I was checking out the latest negatives up for auction from The Topps Vault, I came across two new pictures showing the short-lived 1972 Padres wide-spanning yellow panel:

That is a whole lot of yellow! The player in both pictures is Al Severinsen.

Even though this was apparently only a "Sunday Special", the design does show up in a couple of other interesting places. Here is a picture of the Padres Bullpen Buggy, and its got the wide-spanning panel on the cap:

And finally, here is a 7-11 Slurpee Cup featuring Leron Lee, who is shown sporting the wide-spanning panel cap: